Security guard Mendez, 72, was working a 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift outside a Time Warner Spectrum building when the driver of a Ford Explorer lost control, slamming into the security booth where the victim was working.

The Bronx deli owner, busted after a man was taken hostage and tortured in the basement of her business, insisted in a jailhouse interview Friday that she had nothing to do with the 72-hour “Pulp Fiction”-style torment inflicted on the captive handcuffed to a metal bar during his ordeal.

Amtrak veteran Stephanie Diggs was working as the lead service attendant when most passengers waited to board the Penn Station train — but not the impatient David Gauld, so eager to grab a seat in the first-class car that he barreled right into her on Oct. 10, 2018, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Friday.